dragon
[dræɡən]
The verdict
“dragon” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #14,041. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,041
- frequency rank, German
- 2,764
- “D” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - großes Mischwesen, meist geflügelt, feuerspeiend und mit großen Klauen, das einer Schlange oder Echse ähnelt; Drache
Corpus desk
Index DE-dragon · dragon · German
dragon · rank #14,041 · 9 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,041
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,764
- PHOTO-FINISH Deppen
Nearest frequency peer: Deppen (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „dragon“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- deaktiviert
deaktiviert
85,963 corpus weight
- Denker
Denker
85,962 corpus weight
- Deppen
Deppen
85,961 corpus weight
- dragon
dragon
85,960 corpus weight
- drink
drink
85,959 corpus weight
- drohenden
drohenden
85,958 corpus weight
What this shows „dragon“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | dragon |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [dræɡən] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,041 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „dragon“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around dragon (IPA [dræɡən]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #14,041 among 2,764 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "großes Mischwesen, meist geflügelt, feuerspeiend und mit großen Klauen, das einer Schlange oder Echse ähnelt; Drache".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for dragon, with forms such as "dargon", "ddragon", and "draggon". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "dran", "Drogen", "Dramen", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is dragon, spelled D-R-A-G-O-N.
Definition
- 1großes Mischwesen, meist geflügelt, feuerspeiend und mit großen Klauen, das einer Schlange oder Echse ähnelt; Drache
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how dragon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The dragon is as big as a house.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- dargon
- ddragon
- draggon
- dragno
- dragonn
- draogn
- drgaon
- drragon
- rdagon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of dragon - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "dragon", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).